Feeling safe at Humanities: an all-gender toilet in every building
The university is committed to providing an accessible learning and working environment for students and staff. They should be able to feel at home at our faculty. That is why there is now an all-gender toilet in every humanities building to contribute to that feeling of recognition and safety.
Update 17 March 2022
A second all-gender toilet (0.66) has been realised on the ground floor of the Lipsius building, next to lecture room 0.29. The indication has been changed as well (see the photo to the left). This due to complaints that the toilet on the first floor (1.16) was difficult to find.
The faculty diversity and inclusion policy aims to create an accessible learning and working environment for students and staff. A part of this is increasing the (physicial) accessibility of university buildings: think of wheelchair-friendly routes, prayer rooms and lactation rooms - but also toilets.
A toilet for everyone
Not every student and staff member identifies with the gender they were assigned at birth or feels at home in the male and female binary. This can lead to 'going to the toilet' becoming a stressful situation. That is why every building of the Faculty of Humanities now has at least one all-gender toilet: a toilet that everyone, regardless of gender, can use.
Facilitating all-gender toilets adds to a feeling of recognition and safety for every student and staff member. Toilets play a crucial social role in the facilitation of an inclusive and safe learning and working community, one in which everyone feels safe and can go to the toilet without having to worry.
'The Diversity and Inclusion Expertise Office has been asking for this for a while', says Aurelie van 't Slot, policy officer Diversity & Inclusion of the Faculty of Humanities. 'There are several priorities in the policy and one of the work areas focusses on an accessible and inclusive environment. Facilities are an important part of this, and the introduction of an all-gender toilet in every building is a step in the right direction.'
Where can I find the all-gender toilets?
You can recognise the all-gender toilets by the new icon (on the right). The locations of the all-gender toilets are listed below, and will also be uploaded on the building pages on the university website.
- Arsenaal: A1.54
- Huizinga: 1.50
- Lipsius: 0.66 and 1.16
- PJ Veth: 2.26 and 1.05
- Reuvens: 1.43
- Schouwburgstraat: B3.10, B3.11, B3.05a, B3.05b, B4.11 and B4.12
- Vrieshof: ground floor
- Wijnhaven: 3.33 and 3.34
Do you have a question about diversity and inclusion at the Faculty of Humanities? Do you have ideas or suggestions? Please contact Aurelie van 't Slot via divers-inclusief@hum.leidenuniv.nl.